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| I remember being so excited when I first heard about this movie. I remember reading that the script was based on objects found in a box from Walt Disney's old office. Pretty sure that was just PR BS now, since I didn't come across any reference to this box in reviews or interviews with the director. |
I know--this seems
like an easy target, but nothing frustrates me more about a bad film than if
it's a missed opportunity to do something that could have, and in this case
should have, been amazing. When it comes
to optimistic science fiction films, I'm in the camp that believes we need more
of them (despite the fact that I generally prefer dystopias and
post-apocalypses in my stories). In that
sense, I agree with this film's message, but not how it goes about expressing
it--as everyone who has seen it knows, this film does damn near everything
wrong.
No, that doesn't
mean I'm going to write a ten-part series on the failings of this film (though,
I could). What I am going to do is
explain how I would have recut and reshot portions of TOMORROWLAND so that it
would make a better, more watchable movie.
I usually focus on how I would have rewritten the script, but this time,
I'd have rewritten the entire thing from scratch, making it pretty much
unrecognizable, compared to what Disney let reach the screen. It really is that wrong-in-the-head. After the spoiler alert, I will go into a
short explanation of the thing biggest problems I had with the film and then I
will get to how I'd retool the final cut.
SPOILER ALERT: YOU
ARE ABOUT TO HAVE TOMORROWLAND RUINED FOR YOU (if you haven't already, by
watching it)
OK, so, one of my
biggest problems is...
